COCO BEFORE CHANEL

• Genre: Drama
• Director: Audrey Tautou, Benoit Poelvoorde, Marie Gillian, Alessandro Nivola, Emmanuelle Devos.

Coco Before Chanel is the story of Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel, who began her life as headstrong orphan, and through an extraordinary journey became the legendary couturier who embodied the modern woman and became a timeless symbol of success, freedom and style. The film portrays the formative years of Chanel’s life, the years of Chanel spent discovering and inventing herself.

The confidence and the way Boy Capel looks at her comforts and reassures her. He knows that Chanel holds the future in her, and that the spirit of freedom in this woman embodies modernity. Boy Capel has grasped her remarkable nature, and he makes her understand that her difference is not a handicap, but that on the contrary, it will be her strength. It will trigger change for her destiny. What they have in common is precisely this modernity.

“I don’t understand how a woman can leave the house without fixing herself up a little – if only out of politeness. And then, you never know, maybe that’s the day she has a date with destiny. And it’s best to be as pretty as possible for destiny.”Coco Chanel

“A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.”Coco Chanel

CHANEL QUOTES

“I love luxury. And luxury lies not in richness and ornateness but in the absence of vulgarity. Vulgarity is the ugliest word in our language. I stay in the game to fight it.”Coco Chanel

“Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.”Coco Chanel

“Elegance is not the perogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.”Coco Chanel

 

“Look for the woman in the dress. If there is no woman, there is no dress.”Coco Chanel

“It is the unseen, unforgettable, ultimate accessory of fashion that heralds your arrival and prolongs your departure.” Coco Chanel

“Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.”Coco Chanel

 

BOY ( The  love  of  her  life) Alessandro Nivola

“One can get used to ugliness, but never to negligence.”Coco Chanel

“Adornment, what a science! Beauty, what a weapon! Modesty, what elegance!”Coco Chanel